NAOP News

Washington, D.C.—The National Association for Olmsted Parks (NAOP) congratulates Olmsted Linear Park Alliance (OLPA) in Atlanta, Georgia for its recent awards.  The park received the Marguerite Williams Award, presented annually by the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation to the project that has had the greatest impact on preservation in the state. The park, located along Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Avenue in Druid Hills, also received an award in the Excellence in Rehabilitation category.

Washington, D.C.—The National Association for Olmsted Parks (NAOP) announces a $15,000 grant award from the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation to support ongoing work on volume 9 of the Frederick Law Olmsted Papers Series. Volume 9: The Last Great Projects, 1890–1895 where the World's Columbian Exposition is detailed, will make a significant contribution to understanding the impact made by Olmsted in the city of Chicago. 

Washington, D.C.—The National Association for Olmsted Parks (NAOP) announces its partner Florentine Films/Hott Productions Inc, is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant supporting the making of an Olmsted documentary. NAOP continues to support Florentine Films’ research with expertise and documentation for the award winning project.

The original McMillan Park gardens were designed by Frederick Law Olmstead Jr. & Sr. Olmstead Sr. is known as the “father of American landscape architecture, having designed New York’s Central Park, the U.S. Capitol grounds, Stanford University and the country's oldest state park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls. DC residents enjoyed access to  McMillan park until WWII. In 1985, the slow sand filtration plant at McMillan was replaced with a  new rapid sand filter plant. Come and see, photograph, and enjoy this uniquely historic site.

Washington, D.C.—The National Association for Olmsted Parks (NAOP) announces a $5,000 grant award from Friends of Seattle’s Olmsted Parks (FSOP) to support ongoing work on Olmsted Online, a Washington based pilot project to document Olmsted landscapes. The grant award augments the current program’s funding by creating and enhancing public user content for Olmsted Online. 

Washington, D.C. – The National Association for Olmsted Parks (NAOP) announces with its partners (National Building Museum, American Planning Association, and the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts), the presentation of a symposium to explore the life, work and legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., 20th-century landscape architect, environmental planner and seminal figure in American city planning.

Washington, D.C.—The National Association for Olmsted Parks (NAOP) announces a grant award from Friends of Fairsted. Funding will support publication of Supplementary Series Volume 2: Plans and Photographs of Public Parks, Recreation Grounds, Parkways, Park Systems, and Scenic Reservation, of the Frederick Law Olmsted Papers Project. This Volume is one of the last remaining to be published in the 12-volume series.

The Friends of Fairsted, a non‐profit organization that supports the work of the National Park Service at the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, announce a fellowship to advance the knowledge and appreciation of the Olmsted legacy.

NAOP Announces Partnership with Franklin & Marshall College to
Complete the Final Volume of the Olmsted Papers

With Supplementary Series Volume 2 being prepared for publication in 2012, and editorial work on Volume 8: The Early Boston Years, 1882–1890nearing completion at the University of Virginia, under Dr. Ethan Carr, the National Association for Olmsted Parks (NAOP) and the Olmsted Papers Project are excited to announce the beginning of editorial work on Volume 9: The Last Great Projects, 1890–1895, this July. Volume 9 is the final chronologically arranged volume in the 12-volume Olmsted Papers series. David Schuyler at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, will serve as the principal investigator and principal editor of Volume 9. In addition to Professor Schuyler's editorship with this project, Franklin & Marshall College is providing physical space, student research assistance, and other logistical support for the Volume 9 project.

Join the National Association for Olmsted Parks (NAOP) and the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy (BOPC) in Buffalo for the National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference, Oct.19–22. NAOP and BOPC will present six Olmsted-related sessions, showcasing Buffalo's extensive Olmsted-designed parks and parkway system and drawing conference attendees' attention to landscape preservation issues, and their inextricable links with building and city design and preservation.